The subject of Al Gore always sets me musing about the press. So pardon a paragraph of exposition before I get to Gore’s new movie. It seems to me that the political press has always felt more comfortable with amiable doofuses than with people who genuinely care about what they’re doing. If I wanted to …
Archives for May 2006
Harry Reid, Voice of Reason
So says Red State. Heh.
The Light Goes On
There are so many things in this Carl Hulse piece worth discussing, it is difficult to figure out where to start. I guess the beginning will have to do: After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend. Resentment boiled among senior Republicans …
Something We Can All Support
Running Scared has the details.
Sentences I Wish I Had Written
Andrew Sullivan, discussing the odious fool Rick Santorum: The only thing worse than the Christianists’ sanctimony is their graft. In the current election cycle, Santorum is still the Number One lobbyist favorite. Heh.
The Value of Privacy
A timely op-ed: The most common retort against privacy advocates — by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures — is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?” Some clever answers: “If I’m not doing anything wrong, then you have …
Regarding Mr. Jefferson
And speaking of Mr. Jefferson, here is the story everyone is talking about: Democratic leaders sought to distance the party from Mr. Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who has been accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. In doing that, the leaders tried to draw a distinction …